By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israe — Since the school bus leaving Kibbutz Nahal Oz was fired on by a rocket killing a little boy, all busses have been banned from entering the kibbutz and passengers are ferried to the main road by vans. Next week the new alternative five kilometer road will be [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — At the beginning of the twentieth century the whole of Europe was in a state of flux. New ideas and new ideals were making themselves felt and the youth were bent on changing the old and ringing in the new. All doctrines and philosophies were the rage [...]
KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage…………. His acts being seven ages”. However, that was at the end of the sixteenth century. Today we divide our life into different stages. Between the fifth and sixth periods we can introduce another time line. Most people retire in their mid to [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — When the young enthusiastic idealistic Jews left Eastern Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, they not only left behind their parents and families but also turned their backs on everything that represented their past as Jews of the diaspora. The majority of world [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel –Knowing our past makes our future significant I think most of us missed out on learning about our roots and family history when we never grasped the chance of speaking to our grandparents or great grandparents when we had the opportunity. It seems that we all [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — This coming week will be one of emotional extremes. It was purposely decided that The Day of Remembrance and Independence Day would be celebrated “back to back”. In the early days of the State there wasn’t a family that was not somehow involved with the losses of [...]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO, April 9 — Daniel Viflich, the 16-year-old boy who was injured Thursday, April 7, on the Israeli school bus that was hit by an anti-tank shell fired from the Gaza Strip, had been visiting his grandma at Kibbutz Ruhama and had gone on a ride with his grandma’s neighbor, [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ — I am furious and frustrated. On Thursday afternoon (April 7) the yellow regional school bus drove in to the kibbutz and as usual discharged its load of boisterous school kids. The school day had ended and the Pesah holidays were on hand. The bus did an about turn [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — Places and people have their names changed from time to time. Kibbutz Nahal Oz was originally established as an army outpost in 1951. At that time the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel was just a ploughed furrow to demark where Egypt ended and Israel began. [...]
By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NIR AM, Israel — Science and medicine have enabled us to lengthen our life span, but they still don’t know how to guarantee the quality of our lives. Over the last three years I have been spending a morning a week with one of the founding members of Kibbutz Nir Am [...]